Now next year’s exams will be watered down: GCSEs and A-levels are likely to be easier in 2022 to help children after lessons were disrupted by Covid pandemic Ofqual boss Simon Lebus told MPs there need to be ‘adaptations’ to 2022 exams Mr Lebus said the process of recovering lost learning would take several years … Read more
How will Gavin Williamson’s GCSE and A-Level plan actually work? Gavin Williamson today unveiled his plan for awarding GCSE and A-Level grades this summer after exams were cancelled because of the pandemic. The Education Secretary is putting the power in teachers’ hands to award grades. They will be able to draw on a range of … Read more
What will replace GCSEs and A-levels and will the system be fair? As Government plans to hand teachers control over this year’s exam grades, we answer the important questions By Josh White Education Reporter For The Daily Mail Published: 01:24 GMT, 25 February 2021 | Updated: 01:35 GMT, 25 February 2021 What’s going on? Since … Read more
School students taking their GCSE and A-levels could be asked to take ‘mini-exams’ to help determine their grades, according to reports. Exam boards could write the slimmed down papers, which students will take at the request of their teachers. The papers would be marked by teachers and would be used to help them to inform … Read more
A-Levels ‘will be delayed next summer by three weeks after Downing Street insisted that they must not be cancelled completely’ Gavin Williamson is expected to soon announce a revised exams timetable He is adamant exams will go ahead after bruising summer with algorithm fiasco DfE said ‘a possible short delay to the exam timetable’ was proposed … Read more
Education union chiefs have today demanded an overhaul of next year’s GCSE and A-Level exams over fears coronavirus could cut school contact time and called for an emphasis shift away from end-of-year exams – because students find them ‘too stressful’. Bosses at the National Education Union (NEU), the UK’s largest teaching union, have written to … Read more
Gavin Williamson today gave his full backing to Ofqual just one day after blaming the exam regulator for the Government’s A-level results chaos. The Department for Education said in a statement issued this afternoon that ‘we have full confidence in Ofqual and its leadership’. Mr Williamson had said yesterday the regulator ‘didn’t deliver’ the grading system … Read more
Gavin Williamson was branded a ‘lame duck’ Education Secretary last night as senior Tories urged him to quit over the exams fiasco. MPs believe he will ultimately get the boot when the Prime Minister reshuffles his Cabinet this autumn. But former ministers insisted he should go now, saying his position was ‘completely untenable’. One added: … Read more
University admissions departments now face a ‘major headache’ amid the chaos of a Government U-turn on the way A-level results are awarded – and the scrapping of a temporary cap on how many students they can accept. English universities had only been allowed to recruit 5% more UK students than their targets this year in … Read more
PAUL THOMAS on… A-levels chaos and the France quarantine By Paul Thomas For The Daily Mail Published: 00:32 BST, 15 August 2020 | Updated: 00:47 BST, 15 August 2020 Advertisement ‘What do you mean your French A-level isn’t good enough to get us on the last ferry before quarantine?’ To order a print of this … Read more